Damn Yankees! (1967 film)

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This article is about the film. For the original Broadway musical, see Damn Yankees. For the Rock band, see Damn Yankees (band).
Damn Yankees!
GenreComedy
Musical
Sport
Written byGeorge Abbott (book)
Douglass Wallop (book)
Directed byKirk Browning
StarringPhil Silvers
Lee Remick
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producerAlvin Cooperman
Producer (associate producer)
Production locationVitagraph Studios
Editor
Running time100 minutes
Production companyNBC
DistributorNBC
Release
Original networkNBC
Picture formatColor
Audio formatMono
Original release
  • April 8, 1967 (1967-04-08)

Damn Yankees! is a 1967 American TV adaptation directed by Kirk Browning of the baseball musical Damn Yankees.[1]

Longtime sportscaster and NBC host Joe Garagiola supplied an on-camera set-up to the background for the story’s premise of envy of the successful New York Yankees team.

The pop-art production design and staging[2] featured collage animation and early examples of color Chroma key compositing to achieve traveling mattes for TV.[3]

It was recorded at the old Vitagraph Studios in Brooklyn and “colorcast“ on 8 April 1967 as a production of a relaunched ”G.E. Theater” which ran from late 60s into early 70s.

Cast[]

Note: All the principal cast were singers, so they could all supply their own vocals for the soundtrack without being dubbed.

References[]

  1. ^ Devilish Difficulties Pursue 'Damn Yankees': With Club in 10th, Plot of TV Musical Needs Explaining Once Upon a Time, Beating New York Was a Fantasy By LEONARD KOPPETT. New York Times 26 Feb 1967: S3.
  2. ^ TV: New ‘Damn Yankees’; Kirk Browning’s Version of Musical Employs a Mixture of Staging Forms, by Jack Gould. New York Times, 10 Ap. 1967: 71.
  3. ^ The Cleveland Press, TV Showtime, Apr. 7-14, 1967, cover art.

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